The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-13
Weekly News Summary.


w. w. GREENE of Richmond succeeds
Captain Coifey as landlord of the Windsor
House.
THE towns of Bennington and SALISBURY
have been Quarantined on account of cattle
disease.
ANY person adulterating maple sugar OF
srup is subject to a fine of $50 under the
state law.
IT is now stated that the late Colonel A
IL. Jewett of Swanton left property valued
at 100000.
REV. WALTER CHASE, who has been six
years pastor of the Baptist church at Siam
ford, has resigned
REV. JOHN o. BERGH, Baptist, has ceased
to preach at East Poultney and has removed
to New Haven, CT.
QUITE number of Swedes have arrived
in Proctor and have found employment in
the marble business.
HENRY ID. WHITNEY, formerly of Will
mington, has been elected principal of the
Wells River High School.
REV. GEORGE A. Smith, formerly of Sara
toga, has accepted the pastorate of the
Baptist church of st. Adams.
NATHANIEL FAIRBANKS, aged fifty five, of
Springfield committed suicide last week.
No cause for the act is known.
Mrs. l.. w. MINER, aged sixty, of Aber-
corn, p. O., committed suicide at Richford
April 8, by taking paris green.
THE compilation of the railroad laws of
Vermont, printed for the board of railroad
commissioners, has just been published.
A Mrs. FLYNN blew out the gas on re-
firing at the Van Ness House in Burlington,
Friday night, and her life was saved with
difficulty.
HENRY w. BOOTH, formerly prominent in
business in Bennington died recently at the
N nbap mt ( V ACy ba Tn
aged fifty-seven years.
THE proprietors of the st. Johnsbury
toboggan chute have closed the season with
1927 in the treasury. In some places the
chutes have been financial failures.
A. II. LOCKWOOD, postmaster at Ludlow,
has resigned. A petition signed by seventy
democrats, calling for the appointment of
Ira Goddard, has been sent to Washington
REV. Mr.. CARR of Donaldsonville, Ct,
who has been supplying the Baptist church
at Windsor for the past two months, has re-
ceived a call from the society to settle there
as pastor.
THE American Institute of Instruction will
hold its fifty-eighth annual meeting at Bur-
lington July 5-S. Arrangements are in prog
ress for the usual reduced rates on the
railroads and at hotels.
JOHN ID. BRDGMAN, fifty-nine years old a
well-known lawyer of Bellows Falls, died
town in the legislature of 1857 and 1858 and
was state senator in 1880 and 1881
A YEAR-oLD child of j. S. Carder of Rut-
land ran up to the breakfast table and
tipped over the coffee-pot, the contents
being turned upon the child. Its head
face, neck and right arm were terribly
scalded.
AT the recent village meeting one voter,
who could not get hold of printed ballot,
tn hyra .l,ratr ;ati, h..
trustee ballot thus: The ticket named by
Mr. Allen" That vote did not count.-St.
Adams Messenger.
The Franklin county board of under
writers voted unanimously to raise the
rates twenty per cent ON all rated property
in Swanton, because there is no organized
fire department at that place and because
OF an entire lack of proper facilities for eX-
tinguishing fires.
THE Caledonian Office at st. Johnsbury
has new sign. 1t has been mistaken for
the post-office, a barber-shop and cracker
bakery, and has put out the new sign in
self-defence. We have before heard of
parties asking for bread and getting a
Stone.-Necport Express.
THE item going the rounds of the papers
that Chief Justice Royce of the Vermont SUI
preme court is associated with Ex-Governor
Smith in the Smelling and Mining and Re-
timing Company, located at Ell Paso, Texas
is entirely without foundation in fact A
Mr.. Ross of Canada is the person meant.
In the case of John Combe, killed by a
train at Braintree while walking on the
track, the railroad commission find that no
blame attaches to the train-men. The same
conclusion was reached in the case of Joseph
Comeau, who was killed while attempting
to board moving freight-train at Newport
GENERAL GEORGE 7. CHILDs of st. Albans
was called to Charlestown, Mass, last
Wednesday, by the sudden death of his
father, Hon. Francis Childs. The deceased
was sixty-eight years of age. He had been
member OF the state senate two years and
of the governors council two years; also
state prison inspector and a member of the
Charlestown board of aldermen.
The interstate commerce law is causing
much Inconvenience among the shippers
here. Miller & Ryan have carload OF
wagons ready for shipment to Minneapolis
but cannot get any rates and cannot bill
them farther than Swanton The same is
true of Griswod & Pearl in the shipment OF
grain and the Fairbankses in the shipment
OF scales. No through rates can be secured
west beyond Swanton, which is a mighty
short haul " for merchandise intended for
western cities or San Francisco.-tT. Johns.
bury CdledonidR.
THE supposed earthquake of Sunday felt
in Burlington proves to have been explo.
sOns of nitro-glycerine at Pattsburgh. The
first occurred at fifteen minutes past two
O'Clock P. NJ. and the second seven minutes
later. The shock was most terrific, shaking
everything for miles around The brick
building was scattered for rods, nothing
being left on the spot but an immense hole
in the ground. No one was injured. Lu,
dicrously enough, Washington dispatch on
Monday claimed that this earthquake u
was predicted by Prof. Capen of that city.
CERTAIN st. Johnsbury young men have
become losers by the bursting OF the bubble
of the Young Mems Marriage Endowmen,
Association, which had its headquarters al
Minneapolis. The association was to give
III 600 to any member of it who was married
not within two years after joining, and the
members were to be assessed at each mar
riage to meet the amount. Announcement,
would be received that John Smith of some
where or other had been married. and thai
the assessment was due, and it would bt
sent on by the various members. OF course
it was all moonshine aud clear profit for the
principals. -CdledOnidn
In General.
PRAIRIE fires are raging in Dakota.
THE war-scare in Europe is again reviving
CALIFORNIA crops are suffering somewhat
from drouth.
THE Pope persists that DIR. McGlynn mus
come to Rome.
JOHN L. RAYMOND, the actor, died Sunday
in Evansville, Ind.
The Hygeia Hotel at Fortress Monroe ha,
been sold for $4,000
JOSIAH CALDWELL of London has failed
for five million dollars.
RUSSIA will soon advance her line of oc